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Perennial herb; tuberous-rooted, rhizomatous; flowering stems up to 400 mm high, solitary, simple, erect, leafy in lower half, glandular, thinly cobwebby. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette; blade of basal leaves elliptic, up to 100 x 50 mm, apex subacute, abruptly narrowed to a broad, clasping, petiole-like base up to 30 x 6 mm, both sides glandular-pubescent; blade of stem leaves smaller, sessile, passing into distant bracts. Heads discoid, ± 3-4 x 2-3 mm, many felted together in compact, corymbose clusters, these further felted together into a ± flat disc. Involucral bracts in 2 or 3 series, loosely imbricate, ± equalling florets, not radiating, bright canary-yellow, stereome divided. Receptacle with paleae equalling corolla. Flowers: disc florets only, 7-18; corolla narrowly campanulate above, yellow, sometimes tinged red; Jan.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela hairy. Pappus of few bristles, tips barbellate, bases free.
Tuberous-rooted, rhizomatous herb, flowering stem solitary, simple, erect, glandular, thinly cobwebby. Leaves mostly radical, up to 100 x 50 mm, elliptic, apex subacute, abruptly narrowed to a broad, clasping, petiole-like base up to 30 x 6 mm, both sides glandular-pubescent; cauline leaves smaller, sessile, passing into distant bracts. Capitula ± 3-4 x 2-3 mm, felted together in compact corymbose clusters, these further felted together into a ± flat disc 20-70 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in 2 or 3 series. Receptacle paleate. Flowers 7-18, yellow. Flowering time Jan., Feb. Pappus of few bristles, apex barbellate. Cypselae 1.25 mm long.
